Tag: Michael Slade

Name drop 2: MICHAEL SLADE!

Jul 25, 2014

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Ace Baker

in champion, choose your weapon, fiction, knockout idea, novels, power punch

Just in case you even for a moment thought Lisa Unger would respond and Michael Slade wouldn’t, here’s a post from the Master of Horror himself: That’s what good books and good teachers do, right? Pass on the passion from one generation to the next! By the way, that talk of Slade’s I went to in…
Prologue Trick from Lisa Unger and Michael Slade and…

Jul 24, 2014

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Ace Baker

in fancy footwork, knockout idea, writing technique

To some editors and many readers that “P” word, “prologue,” is almost a swear word. Piles of readers skip over prologues to get to “the meat” of the story. Some editors HATE them. But…what if your story needs one? Here’s a strategy used by Lisa Unger in Beautiful Lies: October 25th, 1972 There were times…
Horror week #005: “What are you afraid of?” Michael Slade

Aug 5, 2013

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Ace Baker

in fiction, novels, short stories, standing 8 count

8+ FEARS TO THINK ABOUT In October, 2005, I attended a session given by Jay Clarke, aka Michael Slade, horror/thriller novelist. The subject of the workshop was FEAR. Here’s a few of the notes I took: “No one ever lost money by offering readers a good ride to hell.” –Michael Slade –“Fear is the…